Triangle crab spider
Ebrechtella tricuspidata
The triangle crab spider is a small spider that waits for its prey on flowers and leaves. The female is light green, so she is very hard to spot among the plants. She often has two reddish bands on her pale body.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and Asia, from Turkey and Russia to China, Korea and Japan, in dry meadows and sunny forest edges
Length
2.5 to 6 mm (0.1 to 0.24 in)
What does it eat?
It sits very still on flowers and leaves and grabs insects that come close.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 13 seconds
How big is Triangle crab spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Triangle crab spider about 0.28 km/h (0.17 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The male looks very different from the female: he is smaller, with a light brown front and a bottle shaped green body.
2
Females are about twice as long as males.
3
Grown-up spiders can be found in May and June.
4
It lives across Europe and Asia, but not in Great Britain.
you asked
Most asked questions about Triangle crab spider
?Why is the triangle crab spider green?
Its green colour helps it hide on plants while it waits for insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ebrechtella tricuspidata
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ebrechtella tricuspidata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Lucarelli. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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